Evaluation of heavy metal levels of patients admitted to Ankara Occupational and Environmental Diseases Hospital in 2006

Year 2017, Volume 2, Issue 1(4), 25 - 25, 01.11.2017

Ceylan Bal Murat Büyükşekerci Gamze Gök Ömer Hınç Yılmaz

Abstract

Aim:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the serum or urinary heavy metal levels
of patients admitted to Ankara Occupational and Environmental Diseases Hospital
in 2006

Method: The study subjects consisted the workers referred to our hospital for
periodical medical examination. The medical records of these subjects between
January 2016 and December 2016 were scanned and evaluated by means of lead,
mercury, arsenic, manganese, nickel and cadmium levels.

Findings: The number of patients whose whole blood lead level monitored was
3858 and %25 (n=973) of them exceed reference value (<10 µg/dl) of our
laboratory. The mean lead value of all patients was 8,8 ug/dL. The number of
patients whose blood mercury level monitored was 1078 and 6 (% 0,5) of them
exceed reference value (<10 µg/L). The mean mercury value of all patients
was 0,51 ug/L. The number of patients whose urinary arsenic level monitored was
2797 and % 4 (n=116) of them exceed reference value (<35 µg/). The mean
arsenic value of all patients was 16,2 ug/L. The number of patients whose whole
blood manganese level monitored was 2494 and 370 (%14) of them exceed reference
value (4,2-16,5 µg/L). The mean manganese value of all patients was 11,5 ug/L.
The number of patients whose serum nickel level monitored was 1680 and 14 (%
0.8) of them exceed reference value (0,6-7,5 µg/L). The mean nickel value of
all patients was 0,03 ug/L. The number of patients whose whole blood cadmium
level monitored was 1666 and 12 (% 0.7) of them exceed reference value (<5
ug/L). The mean cadmium value of all patients was 0,18 ug/L.

Conclusion: We conclude that lead was the most common heavy element to exceed
reference value in occupationally exposed workers and manganese and arsenic
were other elements following lead.

 

Keywords:
Heavy
metal, occupationally exposure, lead

Keywords

Evaluation of heavy metal levels of patients admitted to Ankara Occupational and Environmental Diseases Hospital in 2006

References

• Ceylan Bal1, Murat Büyükşekerci2, Gamze Gök1, Ömer Hınç Yılmaz3 1Department of Biochemistry, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey 2Department of Pharmacology, Occupational Diseases Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3Department of Public Health, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey